Google sets out designs on cars and watches

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Google has initiated a big redesign of its Android software that will take the system beyond the smartphone and into smartwatches, cars and on to the television set.

The internet search giant unveiled a raft of new developments of Android at its I/O developers conference. It kicked off the convention by boasting that there were one billion active Android smartphone users in the world and that its tablet market had risen to 62 per cent from 42 per cent last year.

Sundar Pichai, head of both Android and Chrome software, said that 20 billion messages were sent over phones using

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Google said that Android-based smartwatches from LG and Samsung would be available today

June 26 2014 Stephen Lam/Getty Images

Google said that Android-based smartwatches from LG and Samsung would be available today